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Use the adjective much to mean "a lot" or "a large amount." If you don't get much sleep the night before a big test, you don't get a lot. If you get too much sleep, you may sleep through your alarm and miss the test.

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Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Noun
a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"

Adverb
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely; "much the same thing happened every time"

Adverb
very; "he was much annoyed"

Adverb
to a great degree or extent; "she''s much better now"

Adverb
to a very great degree or extent; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal"

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Adverb
frequently or in great quantities; "I don''t drink much"; "I don''t travel much"

Compar. & superl. wa
Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Compar. & superl. wa
Many in number.

Compar. & superl. wa
High in rank or position.

n.
A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

n.
A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

a.
To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

Much

Much , a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by More , and Most , from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. , fem. , great, and Icel. mj'94k, adv., much. 'fb103. See Mickle.] 1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in.

2. Many in number. [Archaic]

Edom came out against him with much people.

3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Much

Much, n. 1. A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

He that gathered much had nothing over.

&hand; Muchin this sense can be regarded as an adjective qualifying a word unexpressed, and may, therefore, be modified by as, so, too, very. 2. A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.

To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

Much

Much, adv. [Cf. Icel. mj'94k. See Much, a.] To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly. "Much suffering heroes." Pope.

Thou art much mightier than we.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince.

Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much.

All left the world much as they found it.

Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

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Usage Examples

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

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Other Usage Examples

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.